Workplace reviews and discussion: 陽鼎實業股份有限公司

There is no bullying of new employees by old employees, because there are no long-serving employees. Anyone who can last two years is a god. (Family business) The long-serving employees are all members of their family…

Also, because the boss is so terrible, the relationships among colleagues outside the family business are very good.

If you work in the R&D department, be mentally prepared to borrow your year-end bonus every year (you have to sign an IOU). They make it sound nice by calling it a project bonus system, but after product development is completed, they keep putting you off with excuses such as there being no mass production, no product series, or that factory production is not running smoothly. The products are already being sold, yet they still do not pay the bonuses. (Moreover, the products have obtained Taiwanese patents, SGS and UL certifications, and U.S. AMCA certification.)

If you work in the sales department, sorry, your salary is also paid as a loan; if you fail to meet your targets, they will demand repayment.

The sales assistants are replaced on average once a year. Why once a year? Because the company says, putting it nicely, that it wants to help you reduce your taxes, so everything is on a contract basis. You have to sign an indenture, and if you terminate the contract early, they will take you to court. You ask why the Council of Labor Affairs does not help; when you have changed jobs and are still harassed every day, you will really just prefer to pay the money and be done with it!

This company is not merely bad—it is an extremely, extremely terrible company, a sweatshop.